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Determination of Ni Release in NiTi SMA with Surface Modification by Nitrogen Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation

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NiTi SMA is a promising material in the biomedical area due to its mechanical properties and biocompatibility. However, the nickel in the alloy may cause allergic and toxic reactions and thus limiting its applications. It was evaluated the influence of surface modification in NiTi SMA by nitrogen plasma immersion ion implantation (varying temperatures, and exposure time as follows: <250 °C/2 h, 290 °C/2 h, and 560 °C/1 h) in the amount of nickel released using immersion test in simulated body fluid. The depth of the nitrogen implanted layer increased as the implantation temperature increased resulting in the decrease of nickel release. The sample implanted in high implantation temperature presented 35% of nickel release reduction compared to reference sample.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by CNPq, INPE and ITA. The FAPESP (Grant 00/09730-1), FINEP-PRO-INFRA, CNPq (Grant 473612/2006-2 and 478944/2009-8), AEB and CAPES (Grant 5213096).

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  1. Departamento de Materiais e Processo-Divisao de Engenharia Mecanica, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, São José dos Campos, Brazil

    Eliene Nogueira de Camargo, Anderson Oliveira Lobo, Maria Margareth da Silva, Mario Ueda & Jorge Otubo

  2. Instituto de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Universidade do Vale do Paraiba, São José dos Campos, Brazil

    Anderson Oliveira Lobo

  3. Laboratorio Associado de Plasma, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil

    Mario Ueda

  4. Departamento de Quimica, Universidade Estadual de Maringa, Maringá, Brazil

    Edivaldo Egea Garcia

  5. Laboratoire de Métallurgie Physique, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France

    Luc Pichon

  6. Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany

    Helfried Reuther

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This article is an invited paper selected from presentations at Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies 2010, held May 16-20, 2010, in Pacific Grove, California, and has been expanded from the original presentation.

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de Camargo, E.N., Oliveira Lobo, A., Silva, M.M.d. et al. Determination of Ni Release in NiTi SMA with Surface Modification by Nitrogen Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 20, 798–801 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-011-9898-z

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